On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Bakker wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:23, Daniel Hedblom wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a bit of a hard time with a Broadcom 5700 nic. It isnt supported by
> > etherboot or rom-o-matic but there is a gpl driver on the broadcom
> > homepage. Does anyone know howto add a nic driver to a running system? I
> > must be doing it wrong somehow. Right now my boss keeps me between a rock
> > and a hard place.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Daniel
>
>
> There is a Broadcom 5700 driver available at the usual place :-) It is
> also supported by the tg3 driver which is part of most of the kernel
> releases i've seen. So a 'modprobe tg3' should do the trick.
> The autodetect during LTSP/PXE boot is a different thing; for that you
> will have to rebuild the initrd supplied with the kernel.
>
> - startup the 'broadcom' machine
> - do a 'scanpci' (comes with X), lookup your NIC and note the number for
> device and vendor
> - download the ltsp_initrd_kit
> - yank a tg3-line in the 'niclist' and replace the device an vendor ID
> - rebuild the initrd and replace the 'old' initrd.

OR, add the following lines to your dhcpd.conf file:

  option option-128  e4:45:74:68:00:00;
  option option-129  "NIC=tg3";


That will override the niclist, and should get you going.

Jim McQuillan
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>
>
> It worked for me.....
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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